Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask His Majesty's Government what is the cost to date of the installation of new emergency areas on smart motorways, broken down by motorway.

A total of £390 million was previously committed for National Highways to construct over 150 additional Emergency Areas across the All Lane Running smart motorway network through the National Emergency Area Retrofit programme. Work was completed at the end of March 2025, and all Emergency Areas are now open with no permanent traffic management in place.

National Highways is continuing close-out activities in relation to this programme and final costs, broken down on a scheme-by-scheme basis, are expected to be available by end of June 2026.